I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.

I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.

With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.

Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.